Chapter 8

Ashley Falls: "I'll pick you in an hour" I mimicked him with ugly expressions. You idiot, stupid. You hung up on me. I am just not saying anything because I need money otherwise I won't even look at you. I murmured in my mouth and Jane heard. She started laughing.

"What?" I said in anger to Jane. She stopped laughing and shrugged her shoulders.

How could he not even listen to my reply? He was just ordering me. I do have self respect. I felt humiliated. And I was very much in anger. I got ready to go out with him. Again I didn't wear any special clothes. Slight makeup on my face with my casual clothes. I wasn't dying to go out with him. He should know that.

Someone knocked at the door. After checking out who was outside, I opened the door. He also didn't wear any special clothes. Same black clothes. Black t-shirt, black jeans, black jacket, black and white sneakers, black chain around his neck and he was wearing two black rings on his fingers. One on the middle finger and one on the thumb. They were like silver rings.

"Let's go". He said.

"Where are we going?" I frowned.

"Did something happen?" He asked but he didn't show any worry. And it was making me more furious. You did something wrong and at least you should show some worry. But his expressions were the same.

I couldn't hold it anymore, he asked me about something and I exploded," How dare you, you hung up the phone on me. You just ordered me to get ready and you didn't even hear my reply". We were standing on the main door and while getting angry at him. I yelled at him.

"I…..I..…I" he was trying to say something, and I continued speaking in a loud voice, "What I…. I….I… And what are you? Are you a statue or a dummy? Where are your expressions? Same serious face all the time. Show some worry, happiness, sadness, pleasure, pain and rage etc." I stopped shouting and took a sigh of relief. I didn't even notice him while yelling. But after shouting I looked at him.

He was looking down and was quiet. It looked like I was a teacher yelling at my student on his silky mistake.

" Now, why aren't you saying anything?" I shouted again.

"I am sorry. I didn't know I humiliated you" he said in a low voice like he is forced to apologize.

I felt guilty. I thought he would argue with me but he just said sorry. He wasn't looking that bad.

He opened the car door for me. He came in a black sports car. I sat in the car beside him. While we were on our way, I took the chance and said,"I am sorry, I overreacted earlier. I am just like that. Sometimes, I don't think before speaking. You know me. I am not…. I am not.."

"Emotionless". He completed my sentence and looked at me while driving.

"No, I am not someone who hurts anyone without any reason. And you are not emotionless". He looked at me." You are expressionless". I smiled. "I want to know what you are feeling but I can't figure it out if you don't have any expressions or if you don't speak anything". I explained to him.

We reached the entrance of a playland. It was the biggest playland of the island. I heard that a big circus takes place once a week. Various kinds of big rides and other wonderful things were there. I have never been there my whole life because it was too expensive. I always wanted to go there.

He opened the door of the car. I got out of the car and said in excitement,"How do you know I always wanted to come here?"

"You told me," he said in serious, cold expressions.

"What?I told you? I don't remember that. When did I………" I was saying and he started to come closer to me. I got nervous and kept my mouth shut.

His face was coming close to my face and I closed my eyes because I was nervous and afraid. He whispered in my ear," You look beautiful when your hair is untied. He undone my hair band with his hand. My eyes were on his neck. Because when he came close to me. His neck was clearly visible. I was nervous but then I noticed the tattoo on his neck. It was a wolf tattoo. Half of the tattoo was covered with a t- shirt but I saw the other half which was covered by his jacket but now it was visible to me.

He handed me the hair band. And I saw that his eyes turned yellow for a moment. "Your eyes," I said quickly. "What about them?" He replied. "They were yellow, " I showed concern. "It's probably a light reflection. There are many lights here." He said and held my hand. We went in and the whole playland was empty. A man came towards us and said," Mr Nick, On which ride do you want to go first?"

"Mr Nick" slipped from my mouth and I looked at him with surprise.

He was standing beside me, he looked at me and said to the man," We want to go on a Ferris wheel first".

"Your name is Nick," I said to him.

"Yes, Ben Melberg is my father's name," he said to me with a smile.

" What? The whole time I was calling you with your dad's name". I was so embarrassed. He didn't even correct me. I put both of my hands on my face with embarrassment. My face was turning red.

"It's okay. You can call me with any name you want". I slowly move my hand from my face and look at him with lovely expressions. He said impressive words. He deserves that look.

"Come on, let's go". He took my hand and pulled me with him towards the ferris wheel. We sat in a cabin. The cabins didn't have any roof.

"You know I always wanted to ride on a ferris wheel with my partner. Just like typical rom-com movies. Oh…I am so excited". I said in excitement. I was smiling and I was happy. Nick was looking at me.

The Ferris wheel started and when it reached the top, it stopped. "What happened?" I frowned.

"I wanted to show you something". Nick replied.

"What?" I asked.

"Can you stand up?........please!" He looked at me.

"No, I am scared. We might lose balance and fall, if I stand up" I was hell scared.

"Come on, trust me. I"ll never let you fall. I am holding you. Can I? He insisted but with no compelling face or requesting face. Same old serious expressions. He stood up. He was standing in front of me. He bent down and held my waist. I again saw something yellow in his eyes but I ignored it as he told me earlier about light reflection.

I put my hands on both of his shoulders. He turned his head and saw my hands. I began to stand up. I stumbled and held his shoulders tightly but my face came very close to his chest. I was feeling heat coming out of him. His hold on my waist also got tight. Finally, I managed to stood up.

"Look there". He pointed out his finger in a direction.

I look at the direction he pointed out. It was the most wonderful, fascinating and beautiful scene I have ever watched in my entire life. The whole island was truly visible. The mountains, beach, ocean, trees, forest and waterfalls. All were clearly visible and I have never seen the whole island like this.

"Wow, it's a lovely sight. Do you know because of these waterfalls, This island was named as flowland on its discovery. It is one of the island's where most waterfalls are present". I said while staring at the beautiful scenery.

"Actually before humans discovered this island, werewolves were living on it. Humans thought that it was already populated with humans because they saw wolves in their human form. Wolves migrated from this island after the arrival of humans but many are still here". He told the history he knew.

"Really? Do you actually believe in all this stuff? You are strange". I looked at his face. He was still holding me.

"Yes, and if you rearrange the letters of word flow in the word flowland to backward. It will become wolfland. And it's the true identity of this island. Wolfland, the land of werewolves". He stared at me. I got afraid after hearing that information.

"H…..how do you…. You know that?" I asked nervously while being scared.

"Because I am one of them". He said with the same serious old and cold expressions.